Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

About the opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer to design, develop, and scale Figment’s staking infrastructure. In this role, you will lead backend development initiatives, drive architectural improvements, and ensure our APIs and services are performant, secure, and scalable.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, security experts, and other stakeholders to build and optimize backend services, enhance database performance, and develop APIs that abstract the complexity of blockchain SDKs. As a senior team member, you will take ownership of complex projects, solve challenging problems independently, and mentor junior engineers.

The ideal candidate has extensive expertise in Ruby on Rails, relational databases, and distributed systems, strong API design skills, familiarity with JavaScript, and a solid understanding of security pitfalls and performance optimization. You should be comfortable leading technical discussions, mentoring engineers, and making strategic decisions that enhance our backend systems. This is a high-impact role with opportunities to shape product direction, refine best practices, and contribute to the long-term success of Figment’s staking platform.

How you will make an impact

• Designing and developing scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails.
• Optimizing relational database structures and queries for performance and scalability.
• Building and maintaining secure, high-performance APIs (RESTful and GraphQL).
• Contributing to architectural decisions, distributed system design, and microservices strategies.
• Developing JavaScript-based APIs to facilitate blockchain integrations.
• Mentoring junior engineers, sharing best practices, and fostering technical growth.
• Improving performance, reliability, and security across backend systems.
• Leading technical initiatives and working independently to solve complex challenges.
• Collaborating with product and engineering leadership to align technical priorities with business goals.

What you will bring to the team

• Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails and building scalable web applications.
• Deep understanding of database modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and system architecture.
• Experience with background processing systems (Sidekiq, Redis).
• Familiarity with JavaScript and working with third-party libraries.
• Ability to lead projects, drive technical strategy, and mentor engineers.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Strong bias towards simplicity and maintainability.

Technologies we use

Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Databases, AWS, Kubernetes, Javascript

Teams you’ll collaborate with most often

In addition to collaborating with other Product team members, this role will collaborate most often with our FigApp Team, Data Availability team, SG2, and Data Science teams.

Why you might be excited about us

At Figment, we offer an exciting range of competitive benefits designed to support and empower every member of our team:

• 100% remote-first environment. Our flagship office is in Toronto, Canada. We also have additional co-working spaces in New York, Montreal, London, and Singapore. That means if you want to do your things in the office (if you’re near one), at home, or a bit of both, it’s up to you.
• 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days.
• Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one.
• Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements.
• A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in.
• Monthly Wifi reimbursement.
• A yearly Learning & Development budget.
• 401K (US) or RRSP match (Canada).
• Stock Options in the company.
• A competitive bonus (based on company performance) that is distributed bi-annually - we believe that the company’s success should be shared with our employees often
  • For roles listed within the Sales Department, there is instead a competitive commissions structure which will be outlined during your first interview with Figment
• Annual onsite company gatherings and retreats to inspire team bonding, collaboration, and fun!

Other reasons you may love working at Figment

• We are a team of under 200 members, which allows for an impactful contribution from day one.
• We place a strong focus on personal career development to shape a role that fits your goals and interests. Your satisfaction and well-being matter to us, and we’re here to support your ongoing growth.
• Our culture is one of honesty, professionalism and risk taking in a high-growth environment.
• Our team members themselves recommend working at Figment - with an eNPS score of 54 (which is ranked as ‘great’!).
• We are also extremely proud of ranking as one of the top Web3 employers by Talent Titans.

Compensation

One of Figment’s core principles is “Making the Invisible Visible” - ensuring transparency and information sharing in all communication. Figment is committed to transparency regarding pay, benefits, and other compensation types for all internal roles as well as all roles being hired for.

Base Salary: The CAD base salary range for this position is CAD $140,000 - $175,000. The US base salary range for this position is USD $140,000 - $175,000. This range reflects base salary only, and does not include additional compensation or benefits. For candidates in other countries, the pay range will be disclosed upon your first interview with Figment (being a globally remote company, the list of salary ranges would simply be too long to note here!). The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum range for a new hire across all Canada or the US. A candidate’s specific pay within the range will be determined by various factors including job-related skills, relevant education, and training.

Interview process

At Figment, we try to go above and beyond in making sure that you have the best possible experience interviewing with us. We strive for a smooth, organized, and informative process.

• During your first Recruiter Call, you will be provided with more information about Figment, the position and what to expect for the rest of the interview process. Please be prepared to discuss why you are interested in joining Figment and what excites you about the position and company.
• As we go through the process, we work to make sure that you hear back from us in a timely fashion. If we decide at any point that we’re unfortunately not moving forward, we will give you feedback on why it was not a fit.
• We aim for the entire process to take around 2-3 weeks from initial screen to offer. There can be exceptions on either side of the bell curve here, but as a rule, that’s the time-frame you can expect.